And a friend of the family bought 500 of them I'm wondering if he wasted his money. He is an older guy that likes to have like 3 back up copies of everything that's why he bought so many.

If you get the chance, I suggest you recommend your friend to make multiple backups to *different* types of media instead of to the *same* type of media. E.g. DVDs from different manufacturers, DVD + harddrive, DVD + flash memory (USB or SD).

By backing up to multiple discs of the same type, he is risking that all the copies suffer from the same manufacturing problem.

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I have been using verbatim DVD+R 16x CMC Mag M01(MIT) life series lately (burned ok, played well on "old" player) untill I saw some defect inside , really maybe just more estetic, as "incide ring dye edge was not really very round". I switched to Maxell DVD-R 16 x Ritek F1, because someone told me long ago Maxell where good. I did not like much as at one computer they did not burn at 16x but 8x. Though after checking my DVDs with Nero disk quality scan I was totally confused. None Verbatim or Maxell really showed good results, some Verbatim even showed 0% quality score. Checked old DVDs(RitekR03002, Ritek G05, MMC 004, TYG 02(Esperanza) ....others, like 6 years ago burned with another burner, also very different results up to 0%. Probably those had zero that had small scraches.THOUGH all new and old DVDs play good at players and computers. Was in local shop: they have Verbatim DVD+R 16x made in India and DVD-R 16x made in UAE, really dont know what to buy now. Maybe to get Maxell, because they showed at least stable results though not high either. Please advise what to do. What is better producer of Verbatim with Azo dye India or UAE?

Hi kievrus,
welcome to the forum!
Personally, I would buy the MIUAE Verbatims - I have nothing but a good experience with FTI made media.
By the way, what drive did you use for quality scanning of all those media (Ritek G05, etc.)?

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I have been using verbatim DVD+R 16x CMC Mag M01(MIT) life series lately (burned ok, played well on "old" player) untill I saw some defect inside , really maybe just more estetic, as "incide ring dye edge was not really very round". I switched to Maxell DVD-R 16 x Ritek F1, because someone told me long ago Maxell where good. I did not like much as at one computer they did not burn at 16x but 8x. Though after checking my DVDs with Nero disk quality scan I was totally confused. None Verbatim or Maxell really showed good results, some Verbatim even showed 0% quality score. Checked old DVDs(RitekR03002, Ritek G05, MMC 004, TYG 02(Esperanza) ....others, like 6 years ago burned with another burner, also very different results up to 0%. Probably those had zero that had small scraches.THOUGH all new and old DVDs play good at players and computers. Was in local shop: they have Verbatim DVD+R 16x made in India and DVD-R 16x made in UAE, really dont know what to buy now. Maybe to get Maxell, because they showed at least stable results though not high either. Please advise what to do. What is better producer of Verbatim with Azo dye India or UAE?

There you go that explains it all Optiarc's are not very good scanners to start with
but as for what media to buy I have to totally agree 100% with pepst on buying the
MIUAE Verbatims over buying the Maxell's, or the Life Series Verbatim's. If you are
buying Verbatim media make sure it has the AZO dye the Life Series does not have
AZO.

Maxell =
Memorex =
Life Series Verbatim =

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Getit29, thank you for answer. Before verbatim used to be in blue colour boxes (paper +plastic) and after blue with orange DVD-R, but I really did not pay attention this time and just bought "cheaper" ones which were value series and life series. Actually "value series" and "life series" are both MIT and have the same media code just one is cake pack and another spindel. I burned many "value series" actually....They burned easy and play good , I just hope they will play the same in some years. I try to back up much on hard drives but you never have enough of memory, you know. Maybe I should try to win "your own LG N2B1 NAS with 2TB of Storage!" advertised here . Going to buy MIUAE tonigh DVD-R 16x 100pack with AZO. Will inform soon what was the code inside

I will be glad to. Just dont know what program to use to copy screen windows. I really never needed it before. I will search tomorrow in internet and will try to post soon.
Is Transfer Rate Test in Nero? I don't see it.

I will be glad to. Just dont know what program to use to copy screen windows. I really never needed it before. I will search tomorrow in internet and will try to post soon.
Is Transfer Rate Test in Nero? I don't see it.

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I posted transfer rate, could you please comment on it, I really dont understand what it is. Thank you.

As getit29 said, your Optiarc is not a best scanner available and the quality scan does not look too pretty. Anyway, Transfer Rate Test is perfect and it shows that your Optiarc (which is quite a picky reading drive) have no problems reading tested medium (the green line is perfectly smooth).
Could you post the same tests of your "bad" CMC Mag M01 and Maxell media?

As getit29 said, your Optiarc is not a best scanner available and the quality scan does not look too pretty. Anyway, Transfer Rate Test is perfect and it shows that your Optiarc (which is quite a picky reading drive) have no problems reading tested medium (the green line is perfectly smooth).
Could you post the same tests of your "bad" CMC Mag M01 and Maxell media?

Pepst, hank you for helping. I have just burned couple DVDs with different burner, speed 4x and 16x. Speed 4x gives better result. Burned with 16x DVD on run transfer has a huge jump. Only this another burner really itself has chosen speed and I really dont understand why because the same blanks. I have Nero essenyial and really dont see here option to chose speed for burning. So I should burn with lower speed and different Nero probably and maybe different burner. Will post tests of Mag and Maxell later. Thanks a lot again.
p.s. My old DVDs were burned with TSST coprp TS-L532U (broken already because old) and LG USB burner (cant see what model as I left it in my parents house).